Searching for Book Ideas on Amazon
More than any single bookstore or library, Amazon can be an author’s best friend, offering endless opportunities to search for currently available books, ideas, and opportunities.
Time spent at Amazon will help you:
Locate the “missing book.” Searching at Amazon.com helps you…Gordon Gecko and Information as a Commodity
I absolutely love the movie Wall Street. There are plenty of reasons why I love the movie but it is not because of the awesome acting, the dull color fade of the 1980’s, or the slicked back hair styles of Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas. It is one line that makes the movie… one line …
20 Ways to Give to Enhance Your Personal Brand
Giving is on my mind lately, with the tragedy still unfolding in Haiti. Rob Key, CEO of social media marketing and communications agency Converseon, says you should “lead with altruism” and “come bearing gifts.” He’s referring to the use of social media by businesses, but I think the same rules should be applied when creating …
5 Tips to Communicate More Effectively
If you haven’t heard about the napping transit worker who was caught on TwitPic and the firestorm of controversy that ensued, there’s a lesson to be learned: it only takes one tweet to capture you a moment that kills your personal brand. Which got me thinking about another medium that quickly spreads: email.
Take 5…Create Your Own Career Insurance Policy via Your Personal Brand
Is anyone else sick of hearing people use the recession as an excuse for just about everything? “Oh well I can’t, you know, the recession…”
Well, Negative Nancy, guess what? You should of learned your lesson when the dot com bubble burst and then again after September 11- there is no such thing as job …
Personal Brands: Watch Your Step
I’m laying here injured. The worst of it isn’t the aches and pains. The real crime is that I did it myself.
Zach, a friend of mine, did it times three. After a late night drink with the guys, he did the right thing: he got his friend, who was sober, to drive him home. …
Personal Branding Magazine Issue 11 Seth Godin Interview Preview
For the February issue of Personal Branding Magazine, Seth Godin will grace the cover, with an exclusive and lengthy interview I conducted with him about his new book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable. Out of all his bestselling books, this one is the closest related to personal branding because it focuses on becoming indispensable, meaning that …
Free Sample: Personal Branding Magazine Issue 11 With Seth Godin & Guy Fieri
Volume 3, Issue 3 is about becoming so important to your company, your customers and the people around you, that they can’t live without you. When that occurs, you’ll be making more money, have better relationships and wield a …
Personal Branding Interview: Joe Balestrino
Today, I spoke to Joe Balestrino, who is an SEO expert and writer for blogs such as Search Engine Journal. In this interview, Joe explains how companies can be successful without internet marketing, what we could know about with Google real-time search, lists some SEO strategies, mistakes people make when optimizing their sites, and argues …
Do E-books Create Personal Brands?
Stated another way, If you write an e-book, will your personal brand gain the same respect and visibility that you’d receive from a printed version of your book?
This is a particularly timely question since e-books and e-book readers are more and more in the news. For …